seigaku
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What I collect: Latin America, Japan, specialized Mexico (MEPSI member)
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Post by seigaku on Mar 20, 2018 0:00:28 GMT
I am Alec MacCall, and was exchanging emails on a possible project with Jerry B, who kindly recommended that I join the Forum. I have been active in stamps for most of 30 years now, and specialize in early-mid 20th century Mexico (I am a long-term member of MEPSI), but I enjoy collecting all of Latin America and also Japan. I can stumble along in Spanish and Japanese, and have some ability to read type-set Japanese and Chinese kanji characters (but not handwritten) with the help of my trusty dictionaries, in case somebody needs an amateur attempt at translation.
Aside from stamps, I was surprised to see a link to playing chess here. Although I am not much of chess player, I am an enthusiastic Go player, and am always happy to play or teach the game.
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Mick
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What I collect: Mostly covers and postmarks. Also miscellaneous paper ephemera.
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Post by Mick on Mar 20, 2018 0:41:51 GMT
Hi Alec, and welcome to the forum.
My step-son tried teaching me Go a few years back. I could never really get the hang of it, and he beat me handily each time.
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firstfrog2013
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What I collect: BNA Liberia St Pierre U.S. Bolivia Turkey
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Post by firstfrog2013 on Mar 20, 2018 0:55:42 GMT
Greetings Alec.Mexico is really interesting with a history to go with the stamps.I've been seriously looking at Bolivia recently and am sure at some point going to make the leap.Go is not my game but three board Risk has been in my domain before.Weekend marathons were pretty common when lack of sleep didn't matter as much as now.
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seigaku
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Post by seigaku on Mar 20, 2018 1:51:28 GMT
Hi, Firstfrog--
Bolivia is an interesting area, but if you prefer used stamps like I do, it can be difficult finding stamps after 1960! Seems they just didn't use very many!
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Post by dgdecker on Mar 20, 2018 2:10:46 GMT
Alec,
welcome to the forum. Looking forward to seeing nad hearing about your Mexico collection.
david
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firstfrog2013
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Post by firstfrog2013 on Mar 20, 2018 2:44:54 GMT
Yeah Alec I'm leaning towards a collection up to 1940ish.I'm really partial to those bi-color printings what ever the country.
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seigaku
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Post by seigaku on Mar 20, 2018 3:29:13 GMT
Just a suggestion, but you might also take a look at Guatemala, which has some very nice bi-colored stamps in 1920s and 30s.
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Jerry B
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Post by Jerry B on Mar 20, 2018 7:57:32 GMT
Hi Alec  you are going to like it here. A great bunch of guys and tons of knowledge. Jerry B |
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tomiseksj
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What I collect: Worldwide stamps/covers, Cinderellas, Ohio Prepaid Sales Tax Receipts, U.S. WWII Ration ephemera
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Post by tomiseksj on Mar 20, 2018 9:49:34 GMT
Welcome to the Forum, Alec!
I've adjusted your membership status so you can now participate in other areas of the forum. I think many of us would welcome seeing some of your favorite material.
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angore
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Post by angore on Mar 20, 2018 11:02:07 GMT
Howdy!!
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mikeclevenger
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What I collect: Ohio Tax Stamps, Ohio & Georgia Revenues, US Revenues, US FDC's, & Germany Classics
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Post by mikeclevenger on Mar 20, 2018 16:53:20 GMT
Welcome Alec.
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Londonbus1
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What I collect: Wonderland; 1912 Jubilee International Stamp Exhibition, London ('Ideal' Stamp, ephemera); French Cinderellas with an emphasis on Poster Stamps; Israel and Palestine Cinderellas ; Jewish National Fund Stamps, Labels and Tags; London 2010, A Festival of Stamps (anything); South Africa 1937 Coronation issue of KGVI, singles or bi-lingual pairs.
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Post by Londonbus1 on Mar 20, 2018 18:57:25 GMT
Welcome Alec,
Hope you enjoy your time on our forum. Looking forward to seeing some of your collection. I no longer collect postage stamps but still very much enjoy looking at them and talking about them.
Have fun.
Londonbus1
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zipper
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Post by zipper on Mar 20, 2018 19:41:02 GMT
Welcome to the World's Greatest stamp forum.
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coastalcollector
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What I collect: Worldwide Space, U58, U59 Entires, Machine Cancel Covers, German Private Postage of the late 1890's, Misc.
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Post by coastalcollector on Mar 20, 2018 21:50:38 GMT
Alec, there are never enough welcomes...so WELCOME. I subscribe to various email notifications on this site and find it very helpful. It's a great site and always fun to post on, especially scans of your stamps! We all look forward to your postings..the more the merrier  ! Mike (Central Oregon Coast) |
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seigaku
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Post by seigaku on Mar 21, 2018 0:34:45 GMT
Thank you everybody. What a warm welcome! --Alec
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 21, 2018 14:31:05 GMT
Welcome to TSF, Alec!
Enjoy your time with us!
Best Regards, Chris
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seigaku
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Post by seigaku on Mar 21, 2018 16:50:04 GMT
I made an avatar! Japan Letter Writing Day, 1989. It always makes me smile.
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Bombadil
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Post by Bombadil on Mar 21, 2018 23:20:21 GMT
Welcome to TSF Alec , i will need your help when tackeling my Japan and China stamps,it is a very small collection but i have not sorted it out yet.
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seigaku
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Post by seigaku on Mar 22, 2018 3:31:56 GMT
I would be happy to help you with Japan. I have a pre-1950 China collection and can help with 1930s and 40s overprints, but am entirely ignorant of what happened (philatelically) after the revolution.
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Post by tridentcrazy on Mar 22, 2018 17:38:14 GMT
Welcome,
I am a fellow Seattleite! Do you go to any of the local Bourses? Although I specialize in a very narrow area of collecting I look forward to seeing the scans of stamps from all over the world.
Again Welcome to TSF!!
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seigaku
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Post by seigaku on Mar 22, 2018 20:30:35 GMT
Thanks, Trident!
I recently moved to Seattle, and don't know anything about the local bourses (where and when?). It seems a few clubs exist, but they seem to meet in difficult places. I would enjoy know more.
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Post by tridentcrazy on Mar 23, 2018 16:55:50 GMT
Most of the bourses are fenwick stamp club and are in renton kinda weird place to meet up and the big show and boure is in September called seapex last years was pretty good. there are some smaller clubs that meet up in Tacoma and Centralia I will work up some lonks for the various and post them for ya
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seigaku
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Post by seigaku on Mar 23, 2018 19:45:22 GMT
Thanks! I live near UW, but most of the activity seems to be down south.
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 25, 2018 4:39:21 GMT
Hi, Alec: I have a question for you, out of curiosity: how did you choose your TSF site name seigaku? I studied a little Japanese at one time, and for a moment I thought that I recognized the name as meaning "student", but then I remembered that I was thinking of "gakusei" rather than "seigaku". So, I ran "seigaku" through a translator, and I got the English equivalent as "plan". Then I did a web search and noted that Seigaku is a proper name for places as well as for persons. I am interested to learn more about your site name, if you are willing to share.... |
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seigaku
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Post by seigaku on Mar 25, 2018 14:29:11 GMT
I was married in a Japanese Buddhist ceremony, and received the Buddhist name Seigaku meaning something like "fine mountain." Now I am curious what might have come up in your search and will try it myself!
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tomiseksj
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Post by tomiseksj on Mar 25, 2018 16:51:27 GMT
I was married in a Japanese Buddhist ceremony, and received the Buddhist name Seigaku meaning something like "fine mountain." Now I am curious what might have come up in your search and will try it myself! You wouldn't happen to be a singer, would you? According to Google Translate, Seigaku (声楽) means "vocal music" in Japanese. |
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seigaku
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Post by seigaku on Mar 25, 2018 17:20:26 GMT
Nope!--My singing is pretty awful. Completely different kanji characters. How did you put the kanji in your post? I would be happy to write it that way for you if I knew how to do it.
Note to readers: Japanese has very many words that sound the same, but mean different things and are written differently in the "kanji" pictographs that were imported from China over 1000 years ago. To complicate things even more, kanji characters have multiple pronunciations. (It is really not that different from Latin and Greek roots of the same meaning in the English language, but imagine if both of those roots were written with the same symbol.) In Japanese newspapers you may notice little squiggles above many of the kanji characters. They show the phonetic pronunciation of the character, using a phonetic alphabet. To us semi-literates, that can be a big help in linking the written language to the spoken language.
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tomiseksj
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Post by tomiseksj on Mar 25, 2018 18:23:49 GMT
...How did you put the kanji in your post? ... I simply copied the characters from the Google Translate page and pasted them into the post. If you insert the correct characters into Google Translate it may return the correct translation. |
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seigaku
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Post by seigaku on Mar 25, 2018 18:58:16 GMT
In my case, the kanji for Seigaku are 正岳. The first character Sei (also pronounced as "tadashii") means "formally correct", and the second character Gaku means summit or mountain peak. For example, Mount Fuji is sometimes written as fugaku using this kanji.
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bobby1948
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Post by bobby1948 on Mar 26, 2018 9:28:57 GMT
Welcome to the forum, Alec.
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you are going to like it here. A great bunch of guys and tons of knowledge.
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